Manga like Majo no Shikkounin

Tongari Boushi no Atelier

Also known as Witch Hat Atelier.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: she wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch … until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem...



Notes:
Nominated for the 11th Manga Taishou Award in 2018.
Won the Daruma d'Or at Japan Expo in 2019.
Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia at the Eisner Awards in 2020.
Won the Best Manga Award at the Harvey Awards in 2020.

Tags: Witch , Magic , Found Family , Memory Manipulation , Medieval , Female Protagonist , Teacher , Drawing , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , Revenge , School , Primarily Female Cast , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Primarily Child Cast , Politics , Disability , Seinen , Philosophy , Rehabilitation , Amnesia , Foreign , Travel , LGBTQ+ Themes , Spearplay , Body Horror , Iyashikei , Dragons , Twins

Sousou no Frieren

Also known as Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.

Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. With the great struggle over, they all go their separate ways to live a quiet life. But as an elf, Frieren, nearly immortal, will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to terms with the mortality of her friends? How can she find fulfillment in her own life, and can she learn to understand what life means to the humans around her? Frieren begins a new journey to find the answer.



Notes:
Winner of the Grand Prize at the 14th Manga Taisho Awards.
Nominated for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
Placed 3rd at the 7th Annual Next Manga Award.

Tags: Magic , Elf , Travel , Philosophy , Female Protagonist , Time Skip , Episodic , Demons , Iyashikei , Kuudere , Tragedy , Shounen , Fairy Tale , Medieval , Dungeon , Large Breasts , Time Manipulation , Food

Majo to Yajuu

Also known as The Witch and the Beast.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy

Ashaf: a soft-spoken man with delicate features, a coffin strapped to his back, and an entourage of black crows. Guideau: a feral, violent girl with long fangs and the eyes of a beast. This ominous pair appear one day in a town in thrall to a witch — a ruler with magic coursing through her tattooed body, who has convinced the townsfolk she’s their hero. But Ashaf and Guideau know better. They live by one creed: “Wherever a witch goes, only curses and disasters follow.” They have scores to settle, and they won’t hesitate to remove anyone in their way, be it angry mob or army garrison.



Tags: Revenge , Witch , Magic , Seinen , Body Swapping , Gender Bending , Female Protagonist , Gore , Urban Fantasy , Vampire , Fairy Tale , Zombie , Tragedy , Episodic , Agender

Tegami Bachi

Also known as Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy , Mystery , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Gauche Suede is on his last delivery before a big promotion. In the outskirts of Yodaka, the darkest area of Amberground, Gauche is surprised to find that the package is a young boy named Lag Seeing. Lag had been traumatized by his mother's abduction and is due to be delivered to his aunt. In this remote area rife with Gaichuu, Lag and Gauche face a dangerous journey that inspires Lag to become a Letter Bee.



Included Special Chapter:
Volume 3: A Bee and His Dingo


Tags: Shounen , Guns , Male Protagonist , Dystopian , Memory Manipulation , Monster Girl , Demons , Cult , Disability , Steampunk , Animals , Revenge

Kataude no Amy

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life , Supernatural

Amy is an ordinary girl who lives with her beloved father. However, she is not human, but a doll made up of cloth and cotton. Why was she created, and what does her future hold?

Tags: Female Protagonist , Tragedy , Family Life , Adoption , Shounen

Nanase-kun no Tenshoku

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Supernatural

One day, Nanase-kun died. Unsatisfied with what he accomplished in life, he remained in the afterlife to try to improve himself. He got a job ferrying souls on the Sanzu River, but even that wasn't going well, when his old teacher showed up in the afterlife...?

Tags: Afterlife , Male Protagonist , Work , Shounen , Teacher

Boku to Umi Kanojo

Also known as Mikane and The Sea Woman.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

It's not like I don’t belong here… One year ago, a young boy named Mikane moved back to a small island in Kyushu. The locals are warm, his father is brusque yet kind, and he has a good friend who worries for him. Despite having so much, Mikane feels dissatisfied and lonely. Then, one day, he saves a mysterious, beautiful woman from the sea. His meeting with this “onee-san” will drastically change his destiny!!



Tags: Mermaid , Male Protagonist , Coastal , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Rural , Age Gap , Shounen , Reincarnation , Coming of Age

Mahou Gyoushounin Roma

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Psychological , Supernatural

Roma is a mysterious girl that is on a mission to collect “human greed” through the use of various magical objects that have unique powers. When humans use these magical items to satisfy their own personal emotions, such as love, their greed level increases and Roma is able to steal their excess greed.

The people that use Roma’s objects seem to always let their greed destroy themselves, putting themselves in a worse situation than before.

Tags: Magic , Tragedy , Anti-Hero , Shounen , School , Female Protagonist

Layla to Mayonaka 3-ji no Daibouken

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Fantasy

Lyra is a girl who attends a magical school and has a huge amount of magic but can't use it. One day, she finds a picture book at the Great Magic Library.

Tags: Witch , Magic , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Shapeshifting , School , Writing

Pandora Hearts

Also known as Pandora Hearts.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

The air of celebration surrounding fifteen-year-old Oz Vessalius’s coming-of-age ceremony quickly turns to horror when he is condemned for a sin about which he knows nothing. He is thrown into an eternal, inescapable prison known as the Abyss from which there is no escape. There, he meets a young girl named Alice, who is not what she seems. Now that the relentless cogs of fate have begun to turn, do they lead only to crushing despair for Oz, or is there some shred of hope for him to grasp on to?



Note: Includes two extra chapters and the pilot one-shot.

Tags: Tragedy , Amnesia , Philosophy , Time Manipulation , Ensemble Cast , Fairy Tale , Found Family , Body Swapping , Reincarnation , Dissociative Identities , Memory Manipulation , Suicide , Time Skip , Twins , Male Protagonist , Butler , Alternate Universe , Denpa , Gore , Tsundere , Magic , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Guns , Yandere , Body Horror , Afterlife , Primarily Adult Cast